Basket



(No Model.)

M. S. CADWELL.

BASKET.

110.462,531. Patented Nov. 3, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARVIN S. CADVELL, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN.

BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,531, dated November 3, 1891.

Application liled March l1, 1891. Serial No. 384,672. (No model.)

struction of the basket comprising a bottom and series ot' slats secured tothe bottom and a springlhoop secured at the top of the slats by means of binding-wire passing around the slats and being' secured between them to the hoop, and, further, in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts.`

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my basket. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view enlarged, showing two of the slats with a Wire hoop and binding-wire. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the connec* tion for the overlapping ends of the wire hoop.

A represents a wooden bottoni, to which slats B are secured in any suitable manner, preferably by means of the hoop C and suitable nails.

D isa spring-wire hoop or other elastic material, such as the flat steel band arranged at the top of the slats. 'lhis band I secure in position, at the same time securing the slats at predetermined distances apart, by means ot' a binding or securing Wire E, which passes around the back of the slats and is coiled around the hoop D between the slats, as shown at F. I may make a single turn around the hoop D or I may make a series of coils, as desired. The coils around the wire hoop are not intended to act in any way as a re-enforcement to strengthen the hoop, but simply as the means of securing the slats to the elastic hoop at the top. rI"lie ends of the hoop I overlap, as shown in Fig. 3, and for one or two slats I continue both ends of the bindingwire. I prevent the basket from separating at the point where the ends of the hoop overlap, by continuing the bindingwire,as plainly shown in Fig.

The advantage of this construction is that in the use of the basket, if by pressing in at the sides or end in packing or handling or by pressing outward by an un usually-heavy load, as shown, when the pressure is released the spring-hoop will return to its normal position.

In constructions of this kind, in which fiexible wires are used to bind the slats together, the moment the basket is thrown out of shape, either from an internal or external pressure, the wires are bent and the wire retains its misshapen form. Thus for any purpose -in which the basket is to be used fora number of times or continuous use-such as marketbaskets, clothesbaskets, tbe-any construe tion which does not embody a spring-hoop at the top is entirely impracticable.

lVhat I claim as my invention is- In a basket having slatted sides, the combination, with the sides of an interior springband forming a hoop having severed ends, of a binding-wire extending around the outer face and edges of the slats and coiled around the hoop between the slats, the ends of the hoop passing each other and bound to the same slat or slats by the binding -wire, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARVIN S. CADWELL.

Witnesses:

FEEnSHEEEEL, J r., S. LEE Coon. 

